This Series A funding round is co-led by the Temasek-owned decarbonisation fund GenZero from Singapore and San Francisco-based venture capital firm True Ventures with participation from Tesi (Finnish Industry Investment Ltd).
Biochar Carbon Removal is a way to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere with wide-ranging co-benefits. For example, Biochar’s use as a soil amendment can improve food security and soil health while removing carbon from the atmosphere. Businesses...
Summary Rocky Mountain Institute says BiCRS has potential to remove 5.5 gigtons of CO2 globally per year Biochar accounts for over 90% of carbon credits; IPCC says it has 'signifiant mitigation' potential Charm Industrial injecting bio-oil into abandoned...
A startup backed and incubated by Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures has engineered a hybrid technology that combines engineering with natural photosynthesis processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground. “It’s...
The International Biochar Initiative (IBI) – the non-profit member organization fostering stakeholder collaboration, good industry practices, environmental and ethical standards across the biochar sector, hosted its 2023 Virtual Annual Symposium that...
Carbon Removal Canada is an independent policy initiative focused on the rapid and responsible scale-up of carbon removal solutions needed to meet Canada’s climate goals by 2050. What is carbon removal? Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is the process of...
Biochar, a charcoal made from heating discarded organic materials such as crop residues, offers a path to lowering atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) at a time when climate scientists warn that urgent action is needed limit CO2 in the atmosphere. New maps,...
McMinnville-based Solid Carbon says it's come up with a way to trap the carbon emitted during sewage treatment, locking it away in fresh concrete. PORTLAND, Oregon — Treated wastewater sludge is not something many people often think about, let alone as a...
Society must advance responsible research, development, and field testing of ocean-based carbon dioxide removal techniques to determine their potential to help restore the climate and the ocean.
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) has been much in the news of late, with the U.S. Department of Energy’s announcement in August 2023 of the first $1.2B of $3.5B eventual funding for Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hubs. Alongside a strong prioritization of deep...
The global carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market is poised for substantial growth, with a projected CAGR of 20% from 2023 to 2030. By the end of this period, the market value is anticipated to reach approximately US$1.5 billion, reflecting the increasing...
Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is essential to meeting international climate goals, scientists say. Without it, it’s all but impossible to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to limit global warming to 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius,...
When Beauregard Burgess and three friends decided to start a hog and poultry farm in 2015, they chose an odd location: 20 acres of swampy land on the east side of Homer, Alaska, a coastal hamlet south of Anchorage. The land, logged years ago, was in an...
The first-of-its-kind data highlights biochar’s potential to scale carbon removals as a win-win solution for people and the planet. Ground-breaking new research shows that carbon removal solution biochar can play a significant role in global emissions...
As urgency for climate action has hit an all-time high, trust in carbon credits has reached an all-time low. News reports highlighting the presence of low-quality credits have brought renewed scrutiny—and in some cases, greenwashing lawsuits—over the use...
Biochar is often overlooked as a means of sequestering carbon, but it is effective and inexpensive compared to many techno-fixes. Millions of tons of organic waste from agriculture and forestry operations are left to rot or get burned each year. Either...
March 20 marked the release of the final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), an eight-year long undertaking from the world’s most authoritative scientific body on climate change. Drawing on...
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have emitted more than 2,000 gigatons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. (A gigaton is one billion metric tons.) This concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the air causes the climate change impacts...
Over the last five years, more than 80 countries have committed to reaching “net-zero” emissions by mid-century. This means reducing emissions and, in some cases, scaling up carbon removal so the sum of emissions and removals equals zero. When setting...
In theory, it's balancing emissions with removal of greenhouse gases — but the latter isn't easy Canada has committed to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 to fight climate change. At the upcoming COP26 climate summit, hitting net zero globally by 2050...
Direct air capture technologies are showing that carbon dioxide can be drawn out of the atmosphere and sequestered deep underground. But the high cost of such technologies – as well as the practicality of deploying them at massive scale – raises important questions.
A University of Sydney professor is using “digital soil mapping” to help measure soil carbon content in the field and encourage farmers to adopt the government’s Carbon Farming Initiative.
There is a growing interest in “carbon farming” among forward-looking agricultural producers in the United States. Ideas range from promoting on-farm practices such as conservation tilling and livestock rotation to establishing USDA-managed “carbon banks” to facilitate the buying and selling of agricultural carbon credits.